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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strike \Strike\, n. 1. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial. 2. (Bowling, U. S.) Act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also the score thus made Sometimes called {double spare}. 3. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out hence any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it 4. (Tenpins) Same as {Ten-strike}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strike \Strike\, v. t. [imp. {Struck}; p. p. {Struck}, {Stricken}({Stroock}, {Strucken}, Obs.); p. pr & vb n. {Striking}. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS str[=i]can to go proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move go G. streichen OHG. str[=i]hhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf {Streak}, {Stroke}.] 1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to either with the hand or with any instrument or missile. He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius. --Shak. 2. To come in collision with to strike against; as a bullet struck him the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef. 3. To give as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to to dash; to cast. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts --Ex. xii. 7. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. --Byron. 4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint. 5. To thrust in to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as a tree strikes its roots deep. 6. To punish; to afflict; to smite. To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity. --Prov. xvii. 26. 7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march. 8. To lower; to let or take down to remove; as to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch. 9. To make a sudden impression upon as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror. Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view. --Atterbury. They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. --Pope. 10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! --Landor. 11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as to strike a light. Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. --Milton. 12. To cause to ignite; as to strike a match. 13. To make and ratify; as to strike a bargain. Note: Probably borrowed from the L. f[oe]dus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions. 14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as to strike money. [Old Slang] 15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top 16. (Masonry) To cut off as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. 17. To hit upon or light upon suddenly; as my eye struck a strange word they soon struck the trail. 18. To borrow money of to make a demand upon as he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang] 19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. --B. Edwards. 20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. --2 Kings v. 11. 21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. ``Well struck in years.'' --Shak. {To strike an attitude}, {To strike a balance}. See under {Attitude}, and {Balance}. {To strike a jury} (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. --Burrill. {To strike a lead}. a (Mining) To find a vein of ore. b Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] {To strike} {a ledger, or an account}, to balance it {To strike hands with}. a To shake hands with --Halliwell. b To make a compact or agreement with to agree with {To strike off}. a To erase from an account; to deduct; as to strike off the interest of a debt. b (Print.) To impress; to print; as to strike off a thousand copies of a book. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strike \Strike\, v. i. To move to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as to strike into the fields. A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. --Piers Plowman. 2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. --Spenser. Strike now or else the iron cools. --Shak. 3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. 4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as the clock strikes. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. --Byron. 5. To make an attack; to aim a blow. A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. --Shak. Struck for throne, and striking found his doom. --Tennyson. 6. To touch; to act by appulse. Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish. --Locke. 7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as the ship struck in the night. 8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. Till a dart strike through his liver. --Prov. vii. 23. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. --Dryden. 9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into as to strike into reputation; to strike into a run. 10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. --Bp. Burnet. 11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages. 12. To become attached to something -- said of the spat of oysters. 13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] --Nares. {To strike at}, to aim a blow at {To strike for}, to start suddenly on a course for {To strike home}, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. {To strike in}. a To enter suddenly. b To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease. c To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. ``I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.'' --Evelyn. d To join in after another has begun,as in singing. {To strike in with}, to conform to to suit itself to to side with to join with at once. ``To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace.'' --South. {To strike out}. a To start to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as to strike out into an irregular course of life. b To strike with full force. c (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat. {To strike up}, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. ``Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strike \Strike\, n. 1. The act of striking. 2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like scraping off what is above the level of the top a strickle. 3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. 4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.] 5. Fullness of measure; hence excellence of quality. Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike. --Sir W. Scott. 6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.] 7. The act of quitting work specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer. Strikes are the insurrections of labor. --F. A. Walker. 8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer. 9. (Geol.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip. 10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing. {Strike block} (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. --Moxon. {Strike of flax}, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. {Strike of sugar}. (Sugar Making) a The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. b The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: strike n 1: a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled" [syn: {work stoppage}] 2: an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn" 3: a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does not hit; "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls" 4: a gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {tap}] 5: a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame" [syn: {ten-strike}] 6: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career" [syn: {hit}, {bang}, {smash}] v 1: deliver a blow to deliver a stroke to 2: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon "This struck me as odd" [syn: {affect}, {impress}, {move}] 3: hit against; come into sudden contact with "The arrow hit the target"; "The car hit a tree" [syn: {hit}, {impinge on}, {run into}, {collide with}] [ant: {miss}] 4: make a strike against an enemy or a target [syn: {hit}] 5: indicate a certain time by striking, of clocks 6: affect suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather" [syn: {hit}] 7: stop work in order to press demands; "The auto workers are striking for higher wages" [syn: {walk out}] 8: touch or seem as if touching; "Light fell on her face"; "The light struck the golden necklace" [syn: {fall}, {shine}] 9: attain; "The horse finally struck a pace" [syn: {come to}] 10: as of a piano key or notes; "strike middle C"; also used metaphorically: "strike a sour note [syn: {hit}] 11: cause (an arc) to form (as between electrodes of an arc lamp) 12: find unexpectedly: "she struck a goldmine" [syn: {come upon}, {light upon}, {chance upon}, {come across}, {chance on}, {happen upon}, {discover}] 13: produce by ignition; as of fire 14: remove by erasing or crossing out "Please strike this remark from the record" [syn: {expunge}, {excise}] 15: touch or hit with a light, quick blow; "flicked him with his hand" [syn: {flick}] 16: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me" [syn: {hit}, {come to}] 17: of coins [syn: {mint}, {coin}] 18: arrive at or come upon as of solutions to problems
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